[Aurornis]

If your only need is a lot of bandwidth with very low server CPU use that’s fine.

That CPU is ancient, though. Over a decade old. That DRAM is 2-channel DDR3.

This could be a good deal for someone, but entrusting your startup’s operations to a 10 year old slow computer in Germany instead of using EKS would be an extremely short sighted move. A startup should be developing software and shipping it quickly to validate the market, not pinching pennies to save the equivalent of a couple hours of developer salary.

[dijit]

I said the same thing to myself.

But then I remembered that what AWS gives you is the same generation of CPU, just obfuscated.

GCP Also obfuscates it, but not as much: https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-m...

(note: skylake is 10 years old)

[antonkochubey]

>That CPU is ancient, though. Over a decade old.

Coincidentally so are the t3 / t3a instances on AWS that everyone loves to use especially for dev/staging environments

[Aurornis]

10 years is where hardware failure rates start ramping quickly, in my experience.

Not necessarily obvious failures, but subtle errors, memory problems (like this case without an ECC capable CPU) and little instabilities.

With cloud instances I can migrate to a new instance with a couple clicks if I want.

Trying to save a couple hundred euros per month on hosting costs needs to be balanced against the risks and extra developer time.

For personal projects these old instances can be an excellent deal though.

[antonkochubey]

Right, for exactly that reason Hetzner offers brand new AX42 / EX63 servers with ECC memory and modern (Zen 4 / Arrow Lake) CPUs for just a little bit more.

[raxxorraxor]

I would guess that 99.9% of startups wouldn't notice the age of the CPU if they aren't in the business for CPU compute power.

Also, if you don't want to provision software systems, you probably shouldn't use Kubernetes at all. Both this and compute are niche businesses and neither would rent a budget server anyway.

[kasabali]

> That CPU is ancient, though. Over a decade old. That DRAM is 2-channel DDR3.

6700 should be DDR4 unless they're using some weird-ass setup.

[oaiey]

While I agree with the last sentence, I would suggest you buy what is needed not what is latest.